Sawka worked as a sales manager. He says he was subjected to jokes and ridicule at work after at least one co-worker discovered he'd posed nude in the 1990s in a lumberjack-themed spread for Playgirl and found the photos online. He says the conditions became so intolerable he was forced to leave the job in 2011.

He's seeking damages for lost pay.

The company says in its response it "exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any alleged harassing behaviour."